The Next Best Thing

The late Steve Goodman singing "Elvis Imitators". I bought the album Artistic Hair circa 1986 solely based on hearing Weasel play this cut on WHFS. Steve Goodman immediately became one of my favorite singer-songwriters. The performance in this video must be the same one as on the album. Goodman also wrote Arlo Guthrie's big hit "City of New Orleans".

Champions of Faith: Baseball Edition

I just finished watching Champions of Faith: Baseball Edition and was really impressed. Tom Allen and the crew at Catholic Exchange have done a bang up job. The production is professional with crisp editing and is beautiful to view in HD. The real story, of course, though is, well, the stories.

Major league players who share their faith include:

Three time Les Milgram Royals Player of the Year, Mike Sweeney

2006 Worlds Series Most Valuable Player, David Eckstein

12 time All Star, Mike Piazza

Two-time Cy Young Award winner, Tom Glavine

Sean Casey

2002 American League Major League Manager of Year, Mike Scioscia